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Trick for Trick (Fox). The most satisfactory way to see this picture is to arrive in the middle, when Azrah (Ralph Morgan) and the great La Tour (Victor Jory), a pair of major league magicians, are apparently having a contest to see which one can trick the other. You will then be utterly mystified when the great La Tour is found stabbed to death; when a young man in a raccoon coat turns up under a collapsible couch; when two deformed characters, one of them only able to speak with his fingers, crawl through a window and try to drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

Trick For Trick. Azrah (James Rennie) and the Great La Tour (Henry O'Neill) were rival magicians. To solve a girl's murder, Azrah bets $1,000 that he can make her speak from the beyond, name her slayer. The Great La Tour bets he can not. There follows a great deal of lowering and upping of stage lights. During one dark spell the Great La Tour is killed. During another, on the first night, Critic Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune disappeared. It was all right about the Great La Tour, however, because he turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

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